Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S ONENESS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE First Line: If I had loved thee less, I had been free Last Line: My world is lost,yet thou dost merely chide! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
(TO A LADY WHO COMPLAINED THAT OTHERS WERE NEGLECTED FOR HERSELF) IF I had loved thee less, I had been free To smile when others smiledto hope, or fear, And lend to each such silent sympathy As well might prove a friend was listening near. But, loving thee, I have no eyes to see What others see, or feel as others feel. I have no thoughts that are not part of thee, And all my sweets from thoughts of thee I steal. By day, by night, a presence everywhere, Thy mirror'd loveliness in all I find. O task me not in others' thoughts to share, Who cannot turn from thee my trancéd mind! Thus, loving thee far more than aught beside, My world is lost,yet thou dost merely chide! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI A DULL DAY IN SEPTEMBER by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE |
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